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Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)

Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle). Culture: Greek, Cypriot. Dimensions: 6 3/4 in. (17.1 cm) Other: 1 15/16 in. (4.9 cm) Diam. of rim: 1 1/16 in. (2.6 cm). Date: 1st century B.C.. Translucent green, appearing black; one handle and base-knob in yellow brown, the other handle in yellow green; trail in opaque white. Inward-sloping rim-disk, with tooling indent underneath; tall, slightly concave, cylindrical neck; sloping shoulder; elongated piriform body; large applied base-knob; two rod handles applied in pads across shoulder, drawn up and slightly out to above rim, then looped in and down, and attached to neck below rim in a double fold over trail decoration. Single white trail applied around lip of rim and then wound in a spiral around neck and shoulder to body, then tooled into a festoon pattern with twenty-eight upward strokes, continuing in a plain spiral around lower part of body, ending under base-knob. Intact, except for part of knob; areas of deep pitting and dulling, with brilliant iridescence and creamy brown weathering.
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Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)
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Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle). Culture: Greek, Cypriot. Dimensions: 6 3/4 in. (17.1 cm) Other: 1 15/16 in. (4.9 cm) Diam. of rim: 1 1/16 in. (2.6 cm). Date: 1st century B.C.. Translucent green, appearing black; one handle and base-knob in yellow brown, the other handle in yellow green; trail in opaque white. Inward-sloping rim-disk, with tooling indent underneath; tall, slightly concave, cylindrical neck; sloping shoulder; elongated piriform body; large applied base-knob; two rod handles applied in pads across shoulder, drawn up and slightly out to above rim, then looped in and down, and attached to neck below rim in a double fold over trail decoration. Single white trail applied around lip of rim and then wound in a spiral around neck and shoulder to body, then tooled into a festoon pattern with twenty-eight upward strokes, continuing in a plain spiral around lower part of body, ending under base-knob. Intact, except for part of knob; areas of deep pitting and dulling, with brilliant iridescence and creamy brown weathering.
Technique/matériel:
Glass; core-formed, Group III
Période:
late hellenistic
Musée:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Crédit:
Album / Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
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Modèle: Non - Propriété: Non
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Taille de l'image:
4200 x 4200 px | 50.5 MB
Taille d'impression:
35.6 x 35.6 cm | 14.0 x 14.0 in (300 dpi)
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